"The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere."

-- Orison Swett Marden

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“Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.”
“Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.”

Source : Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.689, Delphi Classics
“Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.”
“We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn now to win one”
“Unfortunately, the issues of climate change, unlike many other issues, are very subtle because the changes we observe are very, very subtle.”
“As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.”
“What's left is palimpsestâ€”one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.”
“I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?”

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